Intermittent Fasting & Your Thyroid Health – Do Fasting for Thyroid Problems – Dr.Berg

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hey guys in this video I want to talk about intermittent fasting and your thyroid I get this question a lot people are concerned they’re hypothyroid some of them have hosoo some of them are just regular hypothyroid and they’re like can I do intermittent fasting okay well here’s the data what really uh messes up the thyroid is if you go low calories a low calorie diet now the difference between intermittent fasting and a low calorie diet is that it’s really it’s simple it’s like intermittent fasting you’re still having the same amount of calories you’re just consuming them not as frequent you’re not spreading them out through the day okay so as long as you’re having a nutrient-dense meal with all of the nutrition that you need you’re going to be fine but if you’re doing um a low calorie diet that can be very stressful on the thyroid because because the thyroid is already suffering with a um with the body’s ability to make intracellular enzymes and work correctly and uh metabolize things so you don’t want to literally put it in Starvation starvation or low calorie diets put signals into the brain that um you need to slow the metabolism down even more so in other words the way to create a slow metabolism is to go on a diet lower your calories starve yourself and then your system slows down so if we take a hypothyroid case and we do the same thing so now we take this slow metabolism now we really make it slow okay not a good situation couple things you should know number one selenium is the key Trace mineral to help you convert from T4 to T3 it’s very important hashimotos and um you can get it in bruise yeast or nutritional yeast okay that’s a good good natural source or take it as a supplement iodine get it from celp I have one called Icelandic celp which has also selenium in it both of these it’s a trace mineral it’s not synthetic it’s plant-based um I also have a plant-based Trace mineral but if you want more of the iodine you want to do more seelp for thyroid it’s it’s you don’t need much maybe one or two in the morning don’t have before you go to bed because you’re going it’s going to keep you up um now as far as cruciferous vegetables it could be a factor uh in slowing your thyroid down especially if you consume a lot of them but what I like to do because one of the causes of thyroid in the first place is high levels of estrogen how you going to get that out of your body so you want to consume cruciferous to kind of because it’s anti-estrogenic to help clean some of that out so if you’re if you’re a true uh and you’re concerned just have just small amounts of cruciferous just to make sure okay and then up your seelp and you’ll be fine the other um unknown nutrient that’s vital for uh improving Hashimoto especially is the fat cable vit vitamin A and vitamin D but mainly vitamin A vitamin A has a unique uh ability to go into the the Deep Cell and affect the DNA so it’s really helpful and vitamin A is um you can get it in CER oil so CER oil ver virgin cive oil is a combination of vitamin A and vitamin D together so I’d highly recommend that uh if you have a thyroid issue and also just to support it through intermittent fasting and lastly intermittent fasting itself if done correctly can help you convert T4 to T3 the active form of thyroid hormone so it will improve the thyroid I think the reason it does it mainly is because the gallbladder um helps you convert T4 to T3 and inent fasting greatly improves the gallbladder conversion okay all right so those are some tips and thank you so much for watching hi guys Hey listen I created a pretty amazing evaluation quiz down below that actually analyzes your symptoms to find the cause the root cause of all of your symptoms the most likely cause so so take the quiz now and we’ll send you a report